Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
